Yes and no. Shoegaze straddles a line somewhere between heavenly ethereal nirvana and self-serving faux-artistic mass produced hipster garbage. Of course, on what side of that line whatever one's favorite band is on is up to the listener. What the fuck am I talking about again? Here's a shoegaze blog with download links: http://teenshoegaze.blogspot.com/

I'm a fan of shoegaze but I really think Ride are terribly overrated. They do have one or two songs that are ok but on the whole I think they just sound like an annoying brit pop band with boring songs and lyrics done up with some shoegazey guitar sounds. Am I alone in this?

I also think Lilys are pretty corny for the most part but the first 5/6 songs off this album ("In the Presence of Nothing") are pretty great.

the best lilys song is ginger, worked so well in bag of suck. they have a couple of okay songs, the rest i can't get into. after hearing ginger i thought the rest of their stuff was going to be amazing.

never really considered JAMC shoegaze... if anything i guess you could say it led to that sound, but it itself isn't really. also, i love ride the best out of all the shoegazers, i couldn't disagree more about them being overrated. going blank again is a flawless album start to finish. you guys named a lot of good ones, but i'll add lush and the boo radleys. two underrated shoegazers. the boo's lightened up their sound after a bit, and got even better. when you're done droning to the early stuff, check out giant steps... it's a masterpiece!

never really considered JAMC shoegaze... if anything i guess you could say it led to that sound, but it itself isn't really. also, i love ride the best out of all the shoegazers, i couldn't disagree more about them being overrated. going blank again is a flawless album start to finish. you guys named a lot of good ones, but i'll add lush and the boo radleys. two underrated shoegazers. the boo's lightened up their sound after a bit, and got even better. when you're done droning to the early stuff, check out giant steps... it's a masterpiece!

also, dont know if it was mentioned. but A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS is my go to, ragetastic shoegazehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Epv7j0v8Uthis whole new album "onwards to the wall" is really good in its entirety, so is their first self titled